History LoopholeAbuse / RealLife

** ''The New VideoGame{{/Tetris}}'' has a bug that was repeatedly reported, marked as fixed, and reproduced anyway. The tester [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder jokingly suggested]] replacing the crash dump screen with instructions on how to input one of the game's cheat codes, and that's exactly what the developer did.

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** ''The New VideoGame{{/Tetris}}'' VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' has a bug that was repeatedly reported, marked as fixed, and reproduced anyway. The tester [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder jokingly suggested]] replacing the crash dump screen with instructions on how to input one of the game's cheat codes, and that's exactly what the developer did.

*** A similar is limiting individual coupons to 'one per family', but which in practice will be closer to "one per transaction", since stores don't bat an eye if every individual family member grabs their own shopping cart and buys their own sets of the items on the coupons.

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*** A similar is limiting individual coupons to 'one per family', but which in practice will be closer to "one per transaction", since stores don't bat an eye if every individual family member (assuming none are simply too young to be eligible) grabs their own shopping cart and buys their own sets of the items on the coupons.

* The TroperTales for Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike was removed because it became nothing but huge complaints and was often one big FlameWar after the next. Several other tropes devolved into Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike in the TroperTales section. So people turned to the {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} (at the time called "It Just Bugs Me") and let the complaining and {{flame war}}s begin.* In streaming sites such as ustream and livestream, ads interrupt it. However, get adblocker and they don't play the ads at all.** Likewise, people on Hulu often pick the "give me a longer ad and don't interrupt at all" and then use this opportunity to go to the bathroom or go make a sandwich or popcorn without actually seeing the ad.** Blip has adapted to this by running a 90 second (later 60 seconds) grey screen for users who block ads, the screen points out that the ads are only 30 seconds. Of course, if you prefer 90 seconds of silence to an annoying ad, this could still work in your favor.

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* The TroperTales for Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike was removed because it became nothing but huge complaints and was often one big FlameWar after the next. Several other tropes devolved into Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike similar complaining in the TroperTales section. their Troper Tales sections until Troper Tales was removed entirely. So people turned to the {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]] (at the time called "It Just Bugs Me") and let the complaining and {{flame war}}s begin.begin anew.* In On streaming sites such as ustream and livestream, ads interrupt it. However, get an adblocker and they don't play the ads at all.** Likewise, people on Hulu often pick the "give me a longer ad and don't interrupt at all" option and then use this opportunity to go to the bathroom or go make a sandwich or popcorn without actually seeing the ad.ad ''or'' missing the video they're actually watching.** Blip has had adapted to this by running a 90 second (later 60 seconds) grey screen for users who block ads, the screen points out that the ads are only 30 seconds. Of course, if you prefer 90 seconds of silence to an annoying ad, this could still work in your favor.

* In online auctions (primarily eBay), it's not uncommon to find automated pieces of software that were programmed to monitor the auction and always bid with the absolute minimum price without the person having to ever actually be at the computer.** AintNoRule saying you can't wait until the last 30 seconds of an auction and then outbid the previous bidder by the bare minimum amount.

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* In online auctions (primarily eBay), Website/EBay), it's not uncommon to find automated pieces of software that were programmed to monitor the auction and always bid with the absolute minimum price without the person having to ever actually be at the computer.** AintNoRule Ain't no rule saying you can't wait until the last 30 seconds of an auction and then outbid the previous bidder by the bare minimum amount.

* Whenever something is released under a "pay what you like" plan (such as the UsefulNotes/HumbleBundle) a lot of people select the minimum price, especially if it's as low as $0.01. (And plenty of people still pirate it anyways.) Some bundles are perfectly aware of that and try to guilt trip you (often successfully) to give at least a dollar, or add incentives to pay extra (the Humble Bundle, again, often adds extra games and their soundtracks if you buy it for higher than the average price it's sold for at the time of purchase).

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* Whenever something is released under a "pay what you like" plan (such as the UsefulNotes/HumbleBundle) a lot of people select the minimum price, especially if it's as low as $0.01. (And (and plenty of people still pirate it anyways.) anyways). Some bundles are perfectly aware of that and try to guilt trip you (often successfully) to give at least a dollar, or add incentives to pay extra (the Humble Bundle, again, often which eventually changed the rules so that you have to spend at least a dollar to actually get anything, also adds extra games and their soundtracks if you buy it for higher than the average price it's sold for at the time of purchase).

* On Website/{{Yahoo}} Answers, there's no such rule that you cannot vote for your own answer. This makes it a paradise for {{Troll}}s who can easily score 13 points by writing ''nonsense''. 2 points for the answer, 1 point for the vote, and 10 points if the answer gets selected as the best by voters (which is often just one).

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* On Website/{{Yahoo}} Answers, there's no such rule that you cannot vote for your own answer. This makes it a paradise for {{Troll}}s who can easily score 13 points by writing ''nonsense''. 2 points for the answer, 1 point for the vote, and 10 points if the answer gets selected as the best by voters (which is it often just one).will since nobody else shows up to give a "real" answer).

** Attempted by [[http://notalwaysright.com/better-late-than-clever/14406 this woman]]. The daycare had a rule that parents must sign out their kids by 4 PM or face additional charges. The woman signed her daughter out on time, but left her there while she ran other errands for another 45 minutes (or "a few minutes" as the mother tries to put it). Luckily the daycare didn't put up with her crap, charged her anyway, ''and'' called her out when she tried to blame her daughter.

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** Attempted by [[http://notalwaysright.com/better-late-than-clever/14406 this woman]]. The daycare had a rule that parents must sign out their kids by 4 PM or face additional charges. The woman signed her daughter out on time, but left her there while she ran other errands for another 45 minutes (or "a few minutes" as the mother tries to put it). Luckily the daycare didn't put up with her crap, charged her anyway, ''and'' called her out when she tried to blame guilt-trip her daughter. daughter by blaming her being a "bad kid".

* Head shops, or shops that sell products typically for the use of marijuana, if they are located in prohibition areas, they will avoid breaking paraphernalia laws by openly saying that their products are for tobacco use only, and will kick out anyone that makes it explicitly known that they are buying products for marijuana.* With respect to jobs that revolve around tip-based income (e.g. Restaurant waiters and servers), it is a standard that most restaurants in the United States will utilize a legal loophole to pay below minimum wage per hour to said employees. The minimum hourly income at the present is 7.25USD/hour, but most servers are paid between 2.00-2.50 per hour ''because'' of tip income being cited as "hourly" income. However, skilled and experienced servers can in fact make over triple the usual hourly rate in a single shift (100USD to 29.00), while poor servers will struggle to make minimum, making it a sort of real-life money-oriented BeefGate. Some states, such as California, avert this by having their own minimum wage that's both higher than the federal minimum wage and does not include any lower rate for tipped workers.

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* Head shops, or shops that sell products typically for the use of marijuana, if they are located in prohibition areas, they will avoid breaking paraphernalia laws by openly saying that their products are for tobacco use only, and will kick out anyone that makes it explicitly known that they are buying products for marijuana.* With respect to jobs that revolve around tip-based income (e.g. Restaurant restaurant waiters and servers), it is a standard that most restaurants in the United States will utilize a legal loophole to pay below minimum wage per hour to said employees. The minimum hourly income at the present is 7.25USD/hour, but most servers are paid between 2.00-2.50 per hour ''because'' of tip income being cited as "hourly" income. However, skilled and experienced servers can in fact make over triple the usual hourly rate in a single shift (100USD (100 USD to 29.00), while poor servers will struggle to make minimum, making it a sort of real-life money-oriented BeefGate. Some states, such as California, avert this by having their own minimum wage that's both higher than the federal minimum wage and does which tips do not include any lower rate for tipped workers.count towards.

* ''LARP/HumansVsZombies'' manages to avert this entirely by having the "Douchebag Clause" which states "Don't be a douchebag." Simply put, if it's unfair and not covered in the rules, then the mods can invoke the douchebag clause and punish accordingly.

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* ''LARP/HumansVsZombies'' manages to avert this entirely by having the "Douchebag Clause" which states "Don't be a douchebag." Simply put, if it's unfair and but not already covered in the rules, then the mods can invoke the douchebag clause and punish accordingly.

** Similar to Subway's ghetto footlong, a practice among certain Starbucks customers was named the "ghetto latte": order a double shot espresso, which is significantly cheaper than a latte, and also ask for a venti cup of ice, which is free. They then dump the espresso into the venti cup, and then go to the condiment bar and dump tons of milk from the urn into it, effectively creating a venti iced latte for the price of a doppio espresso. (Some will even bring the urn to the counter complaining it is empty when they don't get enough.) Starbucks has not so far banned the procedure, considering it as technically legit.

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** Similar to Subway's ghetto footlong, a practice among certain Starbucks customers was named the "ghetto latte": order a double shot espresso, which is significantly cheaper than a latte, and also ask for a venti cup of ice, which is free. They then dump the espresso into the venti cup, and then go to the condiment bar and dump tons of milk from the urn into it, effectively creating a venti iced latte for the price of a doppio espresso. (Some Some will even bring the urn to the counter complaining it is empty when they don't get enough.) enough. Starbucks has not so far banned the procedure, considering it as technically legit.

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*** A similar is limiting individual coupons to 'one per family', but which in practice will be closer to "one per transaction", since stores don't bat an eye if every individual family member grabs their own shopping cart and buys their own sets of the items on the coupons.

** A similar situation arose with Pepsi in 1996 with its "Pepsi Points" promotion. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdackF2H7Qc commercial]] portrayed a high school kid flying a Harrier jump jet to school with the caption "HARRIER JET--7,000,000 Points". Enter John Leonard, who purchased 7,000,000 Pepsi Points under the rules of the promotion and attempted to claim his Harrier. The case was ultimately [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc settled in federal court]] in Pepsi's favor, on the grounds that the "offer" was obviously a joke (this required the judge to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain in some detail why it was a joke]] in his ruling.) No doubt the Pentagon would have [[http://www.cnn.com/US/9608/09/fringe/pepsi.pentagon/index.html?eref=sitesearch blocked the transfer]] of a flight-capable, state-of-the-art military aircraft to a private citizen in any case, especially since acquiring 7,000,000 Pepsi Points would have cost significantly less than the $30 million unit cost for a Harrier. It also made clear that advertisers had to add 'prize not actually available' legal language to the commercials from that point on to ward off claims of this type.** Actually, while this case was ongoing, the Department of Defense had a couple of loopholes they intended to use in the ''very unlikely'' event the judge actually ordered Pepsi to go through with their ''implied'' promise and provide the winner with a Harrier jet. One was to simply tell Pepsi to pound sand (the Department of Defense had nothing to do with the promotion and had never entered into an agreement to give them a jet for the winner, so good luck winning ''that'' case in federal court). Second was to make Pepsi pay for a jet, and then pull out the engines, avionics, weapons systems, fuel tanks, etc., basically turning the plane into an empty shell. Hey, the promotion didn't say anything about having to provide a ''working'' Harrier jet.

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** A similar situation arose with Pepsi in 1996 with its "Pepsi Points" promotion. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdackF2H7Qc commercial]] portrayed a high school kid flying a Harrier jump jet to school with the caption "HARRIER JET--7,000,000 Points". Enter John Leonard, who purchased 7,000,000 Pepsi Points under the rules of the promotion and attempted to claim his Harrier. The case was ultimately [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc settled in federal court]] in Pepsi's favor, on the grounds that the "offer" was obviously a joke (this required the judge to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain in some detail why it was a joke]] in his ruling.) ruling). No doubt the Pentagon would have [[http://www.cnn.com/US/9608/09/fringe/pepsi.pentagon/index.html?eref=sitesearch blocked the transfer]] of a flight-capable, state-of-the-art military aircraft to a private citizen in any case, especially since acquiring 7,000,000 Pepsi Points would have cost significantly less than the $30 million unit cost for a Harrier. It also made clear that advertisers had to add 'prize not actually available' legal language to the commercials from that point on to ward off claims of this type.** Actually, while While this case was ongoing, the Department of Defense had a couple of their own loopholes they intended to use in the ''very unlikely'' event the judge actually ordered Pepsi to go through with their ''implied'' promise and provide the winner with a Harrier jet. One was was, as mentioned, to simply tell Pepsi to pound sand (the sand, as the Department of Defense had nothing to do with the promotion and had never entered into an agreement to give them a jet for the winner, so good luck winning ''that'' case in federal court). Second winner. Another was to make Pepsi pay for a jet, jet... and then pull out the engines, avionics, weapons systems, fuel tanks, etc., basically turning the plane into an empty shell. Hey, shell - hey, the promotion didn't say anything about having to provide a ''working'' Harrier jet.

* The Montreux Convention prohibits the passage of "Aircraft carriers" through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. The Soviet Union, being the Soviet Union, responded by making ''Kiev''-class "Aviation cruisers", which are [[MacrossMissileMassacre Missile]] [[CoolBoat Cruisers]] which just ''happened'' to [[MilitaryMashupMachine carry aircraft.]]** The wording in the Montreux Convention prohibits the passage of all non-capital ships if the weight is greater than 15000 tons (at full load but no fuel), most carriers are of greater weight. ''Kiev''-class "Aviation cruisers" due to the weapons load, armor and speed are capital ships. However nations actually situated on the Black Sea (such as the Soviet Union, [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp or now Russia, Georgia and Ukraine]]) are exempted from parts of the Montreux Convention (specifically, the tonnage restriction is not applicable to them), as its primary purpose was to keep the militaries of the outside nations (particularly Italy under Mussolini's Fascist government, which clearly sought to expand itself in that direction) ''out''.

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* The Montreux Convention prohibits the passage of "Aircraft carriers" through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. The Soviet Union, being the Soviet Union, responded by making ''Kiev''-class "Aviation "aviation cruisers", which are [[MacrossMissileMassacre Missile]] [[CoolBoat Cruisers]] which just ''happened'' ''just so happened'' to [[MilitaryMashupMachine also carry aircraft.]]** The wording in the Montreux Convention prohibits the passage of all non-capital ships if the weight is greater than 15000 tons (at full load but no fuel), most carriers are of greater weight. ''Kiev''-class "Aviation cruisers" due to the weapons load, armor and speed are capital ships. However However, nations actually situated on the Black Sea (such as the Soviet Union, [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp or now Russia, Georgia and Ukraine]]) are exempted from parts of the Montreux Convention (specifically, the tonnage restriction is not applicable to them), as its primary purpose was to keep the militaries of the outside nations (particularly Italy under Mussolini's Fascist government, which clearly sought to expand itself in that direction) ''out''.

* The TroperTales for Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike was removed because it became nothing but huge complaints and was often one big FlameWar after the next. Several other tropes devolved into Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike in the TroperTales section. So people turned to the {{Headscratchers}} (at the time called "It Just Bugs Me") and let the complaining and {{flame war}}s begin.

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* The TroperTales for Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike was removed because it became nothing but huge complaints and was often one big FlameWar after the next. Several other tropes devolved into Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike in the TroperTales section. So people turned to the {{Headscratchers}} {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} (at the time called "It Just Bugs Me") and let the complaining and {{flame war}}s begin.

* The bump stock, made known from the infamous Las Vegas shooting, is this for laws against fully automatic weapons. When a weapon is fired, the stock recoils against the wielders shoulder. With a bump stock, the weapon bounces forward into the users finger, firing the trigger again. With this a weapon can fire repeatedly while still technically being semiautomatic.

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* The bump stock, made known from the infamous Las Vegas shooting, is this for laws against fully automatic weapons. When a weapon is fired, the stock recoils against the wielders shoulder. With a bump stock, the weapon bounces forward into the users user's finger, firing the trigger again. With this a weapon can fire repeatedly while still technically being semiautomatic. semiautomatic.** An attempt to legally close this "loophole" fell prey to the concept being so mechanically simple that the law proposed would have outlawed '''belt loops'''.

** ''The New VideoGame/Tetris'' has a bug that was repeatedly reported, marked as fixed, and reproduced anyway. The tester [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder jokingly suggested]] replacing the crash dump screen with instructions on how to input one of the game's cheat codes, and that's exactly what the developer did.

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** ''The New VideoGame/Tetris'' VideoGame{{/Tetris}}'' has a bug that was repeatedly reported, marked as fixed, and reproduced anyway. The tester [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder jokingly suggested]] replacing the crash dump screen with instructions on how to input one of the game's cheat codes, and that's exactly what the developer did.did.* In 2018, six teenage boys in Kansas noted that there were no qualifications listed in the book for running for governor, [[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/09/584678163/kansas-scrambles-to-change-rules-after-6-teens-enter-governors-race so they're doing just that]].---> '''Bryan Caskey''', director of elections at the Kansas secretary of state's office: "Under Kansas law, there is no law governing the qualifications for governor, not one, so there's seriously nothing on the books that lays out anything, no age, no residency, no experience. Nothing."

*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_in_Jacksonville,_Florida Jacksonville, Florida]] is a textbook example as each of the Big Four affiliates are involved in a duopoly (NBC affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTLV WTLV]] and ABC affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJXX WJXX]]) or virtual duopoly (Fox affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFOX-TV WFOX]] and CBS affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJAX-TV WJAX]], though the latter has gone back and forth from being a legal duopoly to a virtual duopoly). Until Nexstar Broadcasting Group's [[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/95091/nexstar-selling-five-stations-in-four-markets sale of the latter to Graham Media Group]] (a deal done in relation to its attempt to acquire Media General) was completed in January 2017, the market's two independently owned commercial stations were Graham-owned ex-CBS affiliate turned independent WJXT and Nexstar CW affiliate WCWJ; as such, now that Graham owns WCWJ, Jacksonville is one of the few markets in which all of the major commercial stations are part of some type of duopoly[[note]]Brunswick, Georgia-based WPXC is now the only full-power commercial station in Jacksonville; the market does not have a eighth full-power commercial outlet, and MyNetworkTV -- partly because of this, and the fact that WJXT didn't take a network affiliation after the 2006 network realignment -- is banished to an otherwise Creator/{{MeTV}}-affiliated subchannel of WFOX[[/note]].

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*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_in_Jacksonville,_Florida Jacksonville, Florida]] is a textbook example as each of the Big Four affiliates are involved in a duopoly (NBC affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTLV WTLV]] and ABC affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJXX WJXX]]) or virtual duopoly (Fox affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFOX-TV WFOX]] and CBS affiliate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJAX-TV WJAX]], though the latter has gone back and forth from being a legal duopoly to a virtual duopoly). Until Nexstar Broadcasting Group's [[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/95091/nexstar-selling-five-stations-in-four-markets sale of the latter to Graham Media Group]] (a deal done in relation to its attempt to acquire Media General) was completed in January 2017, the market's two independently owned commercial stations were Graham-owned ex-CBS affiliate turned independent WJXT and Nexstar CW affiliate WCWJ; as such, now that Graham owns WCWJ, Jacksonville is one of the few markets in which all of the major commercial stations are part of some type of duopoly[[note]]Brunswick, Georgia-based WPXC is now the only full-power commercial station in Jacksonville; the market does not have a eighth full-power commercial outlet, and MyNetworkTV Creator/MyNetworkTV -- partly because of this, and the fact that WJXT didn't take a network affiliation after the 2006 network realignment -- is banished to an otherwise Creator/{{MeTV}}-affiliated subchannel of WFOX[[/note]].

** Another loophole is the "failing/failed station" waiver that allows a company to buy a station that it claims is in economically unviable shape. In hindsight, use of the waiver should be in violation of the duopoly rules, since they have been largely used in cities where there aren't enough stations to allow a duopoly normally. It is debatable whether these waivers might get a pass because of the purpose in which they are used. An example is in Green Bay, Wisconsin (which has only seven active full-power stations, plus an eighth that is licensed to a nearby city within the market but actually used another loophole to move to UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}, place smaller translator stations in the city of license, and now broadcasts the Weather Nation network and can't be received in Green Bay at all), where LIN Media used a failing station waiver to buy CW affiliate WCWF in 2010, creating a duopoly with LIN-owned Fox station WLUK-TV under an argument that the WCWF's city of license of Suring (a Northwoods village northwest of Green Bay which was licensed there by a religious organization in the 80's in order to spread their message in God-friendly country, but doesn't really work as a place to put a CW affiliate) didn't provide enough advertising or local income, cleverly omitting that beyond some occasional community calendar drops of Suring, the station is basically a Green Bay operation in everything but name and the digital age put the tower south of Green Bay rather than the analog Suring location; Journal Broadcast Group also used a waiver to buy Appleton-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WACY-TV in the same city to create a duopoly with NBC affiliate WGBA, but in that case, argued that the station's condition back in '''1994''' (when the FCC had not deregulated the industry yet) meant that without WGBA's help, it would be a non-viable station airing low-quality and non-local programming or have long been dormant (the only "local" programming here being high school sports and a horror movie host snarking a movie on Saturday nights; the economic argument of WCWF wasn't used as Appleton is equal in stature to Green Bay). It worked.

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** Another loophole is the "failing/failed station" waiver that allows a company to buy a station that it claims is in economically unviable shape. In hindsight, use of the waiver should be in violation of the duopoly rules, since they have been largely used in cities where there aren't enough stations to allow a duopoly normally. It is debatable whether these waivers might get a pass because of the purpose in which they are used. An example is in Green Bay, Wisconsin (which has only seven active full-power stations, plus an eighth that is licensed to a nearby city within the market but actually used another loophole to move to UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}, place smaller translator stations in the city of license, and now broadcasts the Weather Nation network and can't be received in Green Bay at all), where LIN Media used a failing station waiver to buy CW affiliate WCWF in 2010, creating a duopoly with LIN-owned Fox station WLUK-TV under an argument that the WCWF's city of license of Suring (a Northwoods village northwest of Green Bay which was licensed there by a religious organization in the 80's in order to spread their message in God-friendly country, but doesn't really work as a place to put a CW affiliate) didn't provide enough advertising or local income, cleverly omitting that beyond some occasional community calendar drops of Suring, the station is basically a Green Bay operation in everything but name and the digital age put the tower south of Green Bay rather than the analog Suring location; Journal Broadcast Group also used a waiver to buy Appleton-licensed MyNetworkTV Creator/MyNetworkTV affiliate WACY-TV in the same city to create a duopoly with NBC affiliate WGBA, but in that case, argued that the station's condition back in '''1994''' (when the FCC had not deregulated the industry yet) meant that without WGBA's help, it would be a non-viable station airing low-quality and non-local programming or have long been dormant (the only "local" programming here being high school sports and a horror movie host snarking a movie on Saturday nights; the economic argument of WCWF wasn't used as Appleton is equal in stature to Green Bay). It worked.

* Broadcaster KeithOlbermann "barely graduated" from Cornell after realizing that he needed to take 28 credits in his last semester. The university authorities assumed there was a rule against this - there wasn't, but he was the first person mad enough to try it.

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* Broadcaster KeithOlbermann Creator/KeithOlbermann "barely graduated" from Cornell after realizing that he needed to take 28 credits in his last semester. The university authorities assumed there was a rule against this - there wasn't, but he was the first person mad enough to try it.

* Generally speaking, to get a video game certified for publication, the programming team has to fix any {{Game Breaking Bug}}s that could crash the game. When this is unfeasible in the time available, some games have bypassed this requirement by disguising a crash handler as a CheatCode.** ''VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland'' contains a "secret level select menu" triggered when anything goes wrong, the most notable example of which would be ''punching the cartridge''.** ''VideoGame/MickeyMania'' has a "level warp", moving you forward or backward one level.** ''The New VideoGame/Tetris'' has a bug that was repeatedly reported, marked as fixed, and reproduced anyway. The tester [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder jokingly suggested]] replacing the crash dump screen with instructions on how to input one of the game's cheat codes, and that's exactly what the developer did.

* The American Music Awards abused a loophole of their own in 2009 -- the nominations are based on radio airplay and album sales, and the winners by an online fan vote. Thus, Music/MichaelJackson and his album ''Number Ones'' got five nominations and ultimately four wins. The abuse? ''Number Ones'' was a '''GreatestHitsAlbum released in 2003''' (there was only ''one'' new song on it), and the '''only''' reason Jackson got all that airplay and sales was because ''he had just died'', but there's apparently no rule preventing old material from getting nominations. [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/10/michael-jacksons-american-music-awards-nominations-unfair.html Complaints]] that nominating Jackson wasn't fair to artists who had brought out successful new material in the eligibility period and that the [=AMA=]'s were piggybacking on his death for press and ratings were shouted down by fans saying that the [=AMA=] rules were rules and this just proved Jackson's superiority.** It happened ''again'' in the 2016 nominations, where the then-recently-deceased Music/{{Prince}}'s ''Film/PurpleRain'' soundtrack, released in '''1984''', was one of the three nominees for Best Soundtrack (the other two being ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' and ''Film/SuicideSquad'', both films that were actually released during the eligibility period). Unlike the Jackson case, the backlash wasn't as severe, at least when the nomination was announced.

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* The American Music Awards abused a loophole of their own in 2009 -- the nominations are based on radio airplay and album sales, and the winners by an online fan vote. Thus, Music/MichaelJackson and his album ''Number Ones'' got five nominations and ultimately four wins. The abuse? ''Number Ones'' was a '''GreatestHitsAlbum GreatestHitsAlbum released in 2003''' 2003 (there was only ''one'' one new song on it), the album), and the '''only''' only reason Jackson got all that airplay and sales was because ''he he had just died'', but there's died. But there was apparently no rule preventing old material from getting nominations. [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/10/michael-jacksons-american-music-awards-nominations-unfair.html Complaints]] that nominating Jackson wasn't fair to artists who had brought out successful new material in the eligibility period and that the [=AMA=]'s were piggybacking on his death for press and ratings were shouted down by fans saying that the [=AMA=] rules were rules and this just proved Jackson's superiority.** It happened ''again'' again in the 2016 nominations, where the then-recently-deceased Music/{{Prince}}'s ''Film/PurpleRain'' soundtrack, released in '''1984''', 1984, was one of the three nominees for Best Soundtrack (the other two being ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' and ''Film/SuicideSquad'', both films that were actually released during the eligibility period). Unlike the Jackson case, the backlash wasn't as severe, at least when the nomination was announced.

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